Supply chain collaboration

Supply Chain Collaboration and Negotiation since supply chain management across companies is a key objective, several authors focus on the management of the interface and collaboration between company supply chains towards a cross-industry supply chain the idea is that a collaboration between all companies from natural resource (e.g. metals) to end consumer product (e.g. cars) can lead to lower inventories, lowest costs and... 

Leverage-companies (i.e., purchasers or retailers) demanding upstream and downstream supply chain collaboration on greening initiatives. 

An anecdote involving stakeholder interaction and supply chain collaboration will serve to illustrate several of these points and begin the dialog about how these reporting requirements can lead to improved business planning. Polyvinyl chloride, also... 

Leaders look at the problem and wonder, "Why isn t it easier " Supply chain collaboration to build the most effective end-to-end value network sounds simple, but it has not happened effectively. Why There are some basic problems ... 

McLaren, T., Head, M., Yuan, Y. (2002). Supply chain collaboration alternatives Understanding the expected costs and benefits. Internet Research, 72(4), 348-364. 

The core tenet in developing flexible supply chains is the practice of collaboration. Supply chain collaboration is the confluence of all parties in the supply chain acting in unison towards common objectives. Collaborative partners share information, knowledge, risk, and profits (Men-tzer et al., 2000) based on a foundation of trust and commitment to one another. Ultimately, as organizations move beyond mere operational-level exchanges toward collaboration, supply chains become more competitive (McLaren, Head, Yuan, 2002). Supply chain collaboration does not happen on its own, Mentzer et al. (2000) found that certain conditions or enablers must be in place for partners to forge a collaborative union and share in the benefits ofthe effort. Specifically, the authors found that collaborative relationship required partners in supply chains to ... 

Engaging in these practices improves partners ability to overcome certain obstacles that could doom supply chain collaboration. Further, Mentzer et al. (2000) identified several practices that might impede collaboration ... 

Figure 6. The effect of supply chain collaboration on IT security incidents...

Mentzer, J.T. (2001). Managing supply chain collaboration. In Supply chain management, (pp. 83-84). Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications... 

Wise, D., Fahrenwald, B. (2001, May 6). Supply chain collaboration Close encounters of the best kind. Businessweek. 

Through the use of collaboration tools, the questions ofhowto create awin-win situation between suppliers, distributors, the supply chain members, and to what extent collaboration tools are used become a concern for supply chains. Littler, Lev-erick, Bmce (1995) questioned the suitability of supplier collaboration maybe his question needs to be further extended, and it should be worded as to what extent/level supply chain collaboration is considered to be beneficial ... 

The chapter identifies and categorizes the sources of IT threats in supply chains through a laige-scale survey of companies across various supply chain functions. The authors aigue that the integration of information flows facilitates supply chain collaboration and also increases supply chain risks. The authors suggest that in order for supply chain collaboration to succeed, the benefits of IT integration must exceed the increase in supply chain risk affected by IT. 

The chapter addresses supply chain integration by the use of collaboration tools. The author explains the concept of collaboration tools and its importance in the supply chain integration, evaluates the requirements for supply chain management, and emphasizes the collaborative problem areas within the supply chain. A case study for an application of collaboration tools is presented. The author argues that supply chain collaboration is effective only if the collaboration tools are integrated and used jointly by supply chain partners. 

CPFR is a good example of an industry s response to the need for supply chain change. But what general form might collaboration take between two or more trading partners An earlier article outlined a vision for Stage 3 supply chain collaboration efforts. " The term Stage 3 comes from the third, or supply chain, level as shown in Table 3-3. Multicompany collaboration features include ... 

AirSupply is a central aerospace SCM platform that facilitates secured and traceable communication across companies and provides valuable assistance at both operational and management level. As a result, processes with external partners are more transparent and dependable while various alert mechanisms allow exception-based management of the supply chain. It is based on technology from SupplyOn, a specialist in cross-company supply chain collaboration which is already established in the automotive industry. In close cooperation with BoostAeroSpace, SupplyOn s platform has been adapted to meet aU requirements specific to the aerospace industry. 

Fig. 23.9 Supply chain collaboration enabled by managed file transfer...

Li, L., 2012. Effects of enterprise technology on supply chain collaborations analysis of China-inked supply chain. Erp. Info. Sys. 6 (1), 55—77. 

Chen HL, Zhang J, Ma DZ (2004) Research on supply chain collaborative based on cost and time balance optimization. Comput Integr Manuf Syst 10(12) 1518-1522... 

Ng CK, Vechapikul T (2002) Evaluation of SCOR and CPFR for supply chain collaboration. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Manufacturing and Management, pp... 

Economies ot soale and improvement of quaiity of operation for the company and its partners Increase in profits and leadership In the sector thanks to active supply chain collaboration ... 

Min S., Roath A.S., Daugherty P.J., Genchev S.E., Chen H., Arndt A., 2005, Supply Chain Collaboration What s Happening The International Journal of Logistics Management, 16(2), pp. 237-256. 

When two or more companies adopt long-term perspective and work together to constmct unique value that none of the partner can attain alone, then such an environment is referred to as supply chain collaboration. Due to intensified competition, individual companies have found it difficult to compete alone but need to align their supply chain partners to achieve collaborative advantage. In a collaborative ethnicity, supply chain partners work together and communicate openly. They share information to improve the supply chain visibility which reduces uncertainty they also share knowledge and expertise in all joint efforts such as joint problem-solving and new products development to smooth the operations and enhance the competitiveness. 

Manthou V, Vlachopoulou M, Eolinas D (2004) Virtual e-Chain (VeC) model for supply chain collaboration, btt J Inf Manag 87 241-250. Available through ScienceDirect database. Accessed 17 Mar 2011... 

Nakano and Hirao (2011) used LCA and MFCA for data collection and proposed a supply chain collaboration model (SCCM) to promote improvement activity of product and environmental performance. Zhang and Huang (2013) have provided a fuzzy multi-objective model which optimizes economic. Hung et al. (2006) considered different qualitative and quantitative parameters and proposed a multi-objective model and used fuzzy AHP. 

O Brien, W. (2001), Enabling technologies for project supply chain collaboration, NSFRCIS Infrastructure and Information Technology Workshop, Arlington, VA, June 2001. 

Stank, T.P., Keller, S.B. and Daugherty, P.J. 2001. Supply chain collaboration and logistical service performance. Journal of Business Logistics, 22, 29-48. 

Barratt, M. and Oliveira, A. (2002) Supply chain collaboration exploring the early initiatives, Supply Chain Planning, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 16-28. 

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